While I'm as indecisive as nearly everyone else in the thread about the best episode, I'd like to get in a word for "Kill the Alligator and Run" as the worst.

I have a summer term class starting tomorrow and I'm really tempted to write that on the board now.

I did! *holds out filthy washcloth*

It's definitely Willy — listen to the way he says "Two!"

Yeah, I've always thought this was about the last moment in American history that this sentiment would be likely to be presented on TV unironically (hell, even TZ has a Vietnam story in season 5). This episode has always made me a little uneasy because of that — I'm a literature teacher myself and I'm not sure I'd…

I vaguely remember them being kind of down on actual folk music (as opposed to the definition most people have which is basically "anything acoustic") in the DVD commentary for the other folksong episode! Which made me a little sad, because I am a folk-music-loving nerd (especially songs like the ones you cited).

There are people on tumblr praising HBO's inclusion of people of color?

@avclub-ed0871ac01726144474982051e55c5f4:disqus Go ahead! Throw your vote away!

This episode has destroyed my ability to sleep in hotels because the phrase "hard, feculent motel pillows" is permanently embedded in my memory.

He's done it with pigs! Honest-to-God pigs!

The line read on "blood on the knob" is so great.

It always got me because I loved that song when I was about Lisa's age. I don't know what I was thinking either.

Yeah, you better run, egg!

She was trying to be an Anne Brontë novel, but there was a typo.

I love that science fiction makes phrases like "right past the mourning and straight into the grandmother construction" both possible and accurate.

I have to admit that "The Bard" kind of bugs me precisely because I love Shakespeare, and it gets the depiction of Shakespearean authorship completely wrong. Not in a Shakespeare-wasn't-Shakespeare way (really really not in that way), just in a "Renaissance drama didn't work like that" way. But I realize this is a…

It's cute, but I'm sure it's very sharp and probably dirty!

What about Flatulent Fox? He was based on a true story!

That oughta hold the little SOBs.

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